Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] of a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Edward seemed of a sudden bereft of further speech and Joan was at a loss for the right words . |
| 2 | Navan consisted of an attractive brick-and-tile shopping street , with a four-pronged C. of I. church that nobody used and a bridge over a river . |
| 3 | It also met a further requirement which Freud demanded of a new theoretical formulation , namely , that it help to explain the sociological and historical development of humanity . |
| 4 | For example , in 1981 31 per cent of households in the Federal Republic of Germany and 29 per cent in Denmark consisted of a single person ( CSO 1989 ) . |
| 5 | The 1515 ex Euston on the 13th of January consisted of a three coach Sprinter and a two coach Sprinter coupled together . |
| 6 | Hope returned of a new life beyond the slaughter which was being widely predicted for the March election . |
| 7 | Over black coffee and croissants ( Norma partook of a little black cherry jam ) the Leader and chairman of the Tory Party took counsel together . |
| 8 | ’ Lindsay knew of a reputable firm Blenkiron & Co. who traded from 123 , Wood Street . |
| 9 | Over the summer , Anglo-Soviet negotiations were allowed to drag on until , in August , Stalin despaired of a Western alliance and signed the Nazi-Soviet pact . |
| 10 | Finance Minister Gibson Chigaga died of a suspected heart attack after collapsing as he prepared to address a press conference at Lusaka airport on his return from Paris and London on March 25 . |
| 11 | The government alleged Dr Siraj knew of a planned coup attempt by military officers and that , although he refused to take part , he failed to report the matter to the security services . |
| 12 | Jokes were thin on the ground but when Mr Lamont spoke of a new form of do-it-yourself income tax form for the self employed one MP raised a titter when he shouted : ‘ At least that 'll suit one person — John Birt ( the BBC director general ) ’ . |
| 13 | Claiming that Zimbabweans in Mozambican uniforms were operating in 52 other places ( in seven of Mozambique 's 11 provinces ) , the MNR complained of an alleged lack of impartiality on the part of the international Joint Verification Commission ( JVC ) set up to monitor the Rome agreement . |
| 14 | For December 14th 1804 he writes : ‘ finished the three drawings for Mr. Knowlys — Mrs. Green delivered of a dead daughter the child full grown ’ , and on January 23rd 1808 he wrote tersely ‘ My wife was delivered about one in the day of a daughter . ’ |
| 15 | In England , Joseph Chamberlain dreamed of an Anglo-Saxon-German alliance and scholarships founded by Cecil Rhodes expressed the same aspiration . |
| 16 | Thoreau wrote of an Eternal City of the West , and for long , I groped to understand what he meant by it and I still do not know ; but one evening I saw in the brick red mass of cloud and fire of the sunset what seemed like a great city of the West and I wondered if this was Thoreau 's vision of America . |
| 17 | At a party at the Hyde Park Hotel to celebrate his forthcoming 86th birthday on Christmas Day , Lord Grade told of a tricky moment during the filming of his film Jesus of Nazareth . |
| 18 | Forster dreamed of a beautiful , sophisticated woman . |
| 19 | He recorded a verdict that Mr Crossthwaite died of a prescribed disease . |
| 20 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 21 | Either way it is likely , as Palmerston said of a projected coalition with Disraeli in 1857 , to be little more than ‘ the accident and fortuitous concurrence of atoms ’ . |
| 22 | The only reply was a muffled crunching as Cassowary disposed of a beak-full of berries , leaves and twigs . |
| 23 | Sophia had , in a sense , married beneath her , for although Mark came of a good clerical family he was without private means . |
| 24 | That at Wakerley consisted of a day-lined furnace set 2½ feet into the limestone bedrock . |
| 25 | The second placed designs by Atlas Architects of Amsterdam consisted of a simple sandstone needle designed deliberately to contrast with the glass bulk of the St Enoch Centre . |
| 26 | The congregation of St Nicholas consisted of a few poor people from the neighbourhood and otherwise of less poor people from various parts of the city or from Birkenhead across the Mersey . |
| 27 | What Bet and Alec thought of a packed house replete with Manc ravers is anyone 's guess but we are told that this event , which was a joint Most Excellent and A Bit Ginger promotion , had the Mancunian cognoscenti rocking over the most famous beermats in Britain . |
| 28 | However , in May Winchelsey learned of a papal concession to the king of France admitting the king 's right to tax clergy without papal licence for defence of the realm in an emergency . |
| 29 | They were introduced to one another by a woman friend who thought they should get on well in London as Margaret came of a better family and knew the people , and Ivy had the money . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , Monty 's beloved Betty died of a strange illness , just ten years later , leaving a distraught Monty with a son , David . |